“Grief sometimes lives until it finds a new place to turn into love,” Robert told her.
Joanna realized that he had become a load-bearing beam for their family. Five years after the wedding, they were all in the kitchen of their new house.
“Grandpa, how do you spell impossible?” Noah asked while doing his homework.
“It depends on if you mean the word or the thing people do anyway,” Robert replied.
Joanna smiled into her coffee as she watched her family move around the room. She still remembered the cold Tuesday when she walked into the hospital alone.
She remembered the lie she told at the desk and the loneliness she felt. But she also knew that the story had changed since then.
Logan had come back and he had stayed through the hard parts. In a world where people fear abandonment, staying is the whole architecture of a life.
THE END.
